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[quote=Anonymous]One thing that helped me was having a formula.

I used to make a lot of vegetable heavy soups and freeze them.  Easy things like lentil soup, minestrone, hamburger soup, taco soup, chicken noodle soup with lots of veggies, that I could put together in 30 minutes, with a lot of that hands off time.

I also bought a lot of caesar salad kits, because my kids would eat those.

Then most days, I'd make an entree that was protein + carb, and serve it with

milk
either soup or salad
another vegetable (raw carrots, raw peppers, raw cucumber, frozen peas, steamed broccoli from the microwave were the ones that got eaten the most) 
Fruit

Here are the entrees we ate the most:

Grilled cheese sandwich

Quesadilla (sometimes with leftover chicken or taco meat, if I had some, or with black beans but sometimes just cheese)

Scrambled eggs with toast

Frozen ravioli with hamburger browned in marina sauce.

Cut up granny smith apples and potatoes fried with some Italian turkey sausage

Pizzas we made on homemade na'an

Pork chops on a sheet pan with cut up sweet potatoes

Hamburgers or turkey burgers or veggie burgers on whole grain buns

Sloppy joes with a mix of meat and lentils on a whole wheat bun

Tacos with a mix of meat and lentils in hard shells

Homemade chicken nuggets (I'd make a ton and freeze them) with sweet potato fries

Canned beans with brown rice

Baked beans on toast

Cabbage and baby carrots and potatoes steamed with some turkey kielbasa

Store bought rotisserie chicken, with store bought corn bread

If I had more time, I'd do something like roast chicken, or pot roast in the crock pot and use the leftovers for soup, quesadilla filling, salad toppings etc . . . 
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